Wireless speed in XP home sp1

I know this subject has been beaten to death, but here goes anyway. I'm now
thinking my "slow" speed is actually windows response time, not so much the
network. The "slow" speed I'm getting in mostly lag time in Explorer, trying
to find networked computers, files/folders, transferring large amounts of
data (both large files & many small files). When I'm just surfing (via 56K)
everything runs smooth, but when I open (file)explorer, windows seems to
take a nap. It seems my 800Mhz mobile p3, and 1.4Ghz mobile AMD's become
8088's! I'm running a D-link+ network (614+ AP & 650+ card) and swapping the
card between a Compaq 1800T (800Mhz) Win2k Pro, and my new Averatec 1600 Win
XP home machines.

I copied a 30M file in 2k, via wireless and it took a min or 2, max speed
hit on the software was around 5M (not bad) but averaged under 2M. The XP
machine can barely stay "awake" long enough to complete the same task. Most
times it'll time out, or say files is no longer available or some other
stupid message, even tho the meter in the task bar never drops below good.
(In other words I never really loose the wireless net work connection)

Any suggestions on how to make explorer respond better in a wireless
atmosphere, or is this just how windows & wireless get along?

Thanks
Bryan

(Sorry if this appears as a double post, but my reader, OE, stuck my new
post under the same subject as a message weeks ago, and I thought it may get
overlooked.)

Bryan wrote:
>
> I know this subject has been beaten to death, but here goes anyway. I'm now
> thinking my "slow" speed is actually windows response time, not so much the
> network. The "slow" speed I'm getting in mostly lag time in Explorer, trying
> to find networked computers, files/folders, transferring large amounts of
> data (both large files & many small files). When I'm just surfing (via 56K)
> everything runs smooth, but when I open (file)explorer, windows seems to
> take a nap. It seems my 800Mhz mobile p3, and 1.4Ghz mobile AMD's become
> 8088's! I'm running a D-link+ network (614+ AP & 650+ card) and swapping the
> card between a Compaq 1800T (800Mhz) Win2k Pro, and my new Averatec 1600 Win
> XP home machines.
>
> I copied a 30M file in 2k, via wireless and it took a min or 2, max speed
> hit on the software was around 5M (not bad) but averaged under 2M. The XP
> machine can barely stay "awake" long enough to complete the same task. Most
> times it'll time out, or say files is no longer available or some other
> stupid message, even tho the meter in the task bar never drops below good.
> (In other words I never really loose the wireless net work connection)
>
> Any suggestions on how to make explorer respond better in a wireless
> atmosphere, or is this just how windows & wireless get along?
>
> Thanks
> Bryan
>
> (Sorry if this appears as a double post, but my reader, OE, stuck my new
> post under the same subject as a message weeks ago, and I thought it may get
> overlooked.)

You don't say if you are using TCP/IP, I'm assuming you are. Try editing
the HOSTS file in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc. Add the IP address of
the other computer(s) and the names under where it says 127.0.0.1
localhost.

Just use spaces to make the gap up between the two entries. There is a
header to the file explaining this.

HTH

Cheers.

--
Martin Saltiel

These computers will never catch on...

OK, I've done a couple of things and now it seems to work much better, maybe
not faster, but stable!

My notebook shipped with XP sp1 installed and some hotfixes, Q815485, so I
removed that, didn't seem to help. Browsed D-link-s FAQ's and saw something
about the 4x mode causing problems with non D-link cards, so on a hunch,
turned off 4x on the 614+ & the 650+ and now moving big files move along
with out the "network destination no longer available" (something like that)
error popup!

So it seems I just need to stay in the 22Mps settings if I want to have
stable explorer sharing, and for internet 4x is still way faster than 56k
provides, so no big deal there.

Just wanted to give an update incase someone else is having D-link air +
problems!

Bryan
"Bryan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0RCdnUF8t_-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I know this subject has been beaten to death, but here goes anyway. I'm
now
> thinking my "slow" speed is actually windows response time, not so much
the
> network. The "slow" speed I'm getting in mostly lag time in Explorer,
trying
> to find networked computers, files/folders, transferring large amounts of
> data (both large files & many small files). When I'm just surfing (via
56K)
> everything runs smooth, but when I open (file)explorer, windows seems to
> take a nap. It seems my 800Mhz mobile p3, and 1.4Ghz mobile AMD's become
> 8088's! I'm running a D-link+ network (614+ AP & 650+ card) and swapping
the
> card between a Compaq 1800T (800Mhz) Win2k Pro, and my new Averatec 1600
Win
> XP home machines.
>
> I copied a 30M file in 2k, via wireless and it took a min or 2, max speed
> hit on the software was around 5M (not bad) but averaged under 2M. The XP
> machine can barely stay "awake" long enough to complete the same task.
Most
> times it'll time out, or say files is no longer available or some other
> stupid message, even tho the meter in the task bar never drops below good.
> (In other words I never really loose the wireless net work connection)
>
> Any suggestions on how to make explorer respond better in a wireless
> atmosphere, or is this just how windows & wireless get along?
>
> Thanks
> Bryan
>
> (Sorry if this appears as a double post, but my reader, OE, stuck my new
> post under the same subject as a message weeks ago, and I thought it may
get
> overlooked.)
>
>